50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened

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I heard that there was once a YouTuber that had like a hundred different channels and presented on such a wide array of topics that he was practically a genius, a modern day Library of Alexandria. But it's probably just a myth.

It was under Mythbusters's test of Archimedes's death ray when Jamie Hyneman said "The death ray isn't working -I'm standing in the middle of it and I'm not dead yet."

As a Greek I will say the stories about Ancient Greece are perfect for describing us as shitposters even when the internet wasn't even a concept

The Alice Cooper one always made my friend's mom laugh when people told her this. She was a HUGE Alice Cooper fan and whilst pregnant with my friend she went to one of his concerts, and also had a backstage pass (she had won a radio contest or something). She said when Alice noticed she was pregnant (cause she was barely 3 months along) he went from rock superstar badass character he puts on during shows, to extremely caring mom-friend watching out for her. He demanded the others not smoke in the green room while she was there, made sure she had food and/or something without alcohol to drink, and even gave her his chair so she could sit.

"George. Did you chopdown my cherry tree?" "Icannot tell a lie father, Benedict Arnold did it and ran away".

I would imagine Ceasers last words were more along the lines of ‘Ahrgghh, arghhhh, help, murder, arghhh, arghhh, gurgle, gurgle!’, rather than ‘et tu brute’.

Simon: "The book of Kings was likely embellished to make Solomon look better than he was." I & II Kings: A literal laundry list of mistakes and sins made by Kings, FIRST OF WHICH WAS SOLOMON.

I had to laugh at the painting of the young-boy version of George Washington holding his hatchet and looking exactly like a miniaturized version of the middle-aged adult George Washington. Lol.

Actually the 4th Doctor was caught by Newton sitting in one of his apple trees, and the Doctor explained all about gravity and the Laws of Motion to Newton during dinner later that day. It's well documented.

That time Atlas carried a giant pancake on his shoulders. Still true for flat earthers.

An addendum for the "Let them eat brioche" topic: At the time when the quote was born, there was a law in France which said that if bakers ran out of bread, they had to sell the fancier bakery products cheaper. The reason for introducing the law was that some bakers made less bread so they could cash in on the fancier stuff.

A "Berliner" is not a jelly donut. It is somewhat similar but not in a donut shape at all, it's like a bread roll. It is said it was invented in Berlin, and it was originally made by placing the round dough in a pan filled with a couple cm of oil and flipped over, giving it its typical three-striped look with darker, fried dough on top and bottom and a brighter stripe of softer dough in between. It's then traditionally filled with jam and covered in powdered sugar, though these days a lot of variations exist. Due to the use of the pan, people in Berlin call it "Pfannkuchen" (pancake), which they're being made fun of by the rest of Germany, who call an actual pancake a pancake (which the people in Berlin call "Eierkuchen", eggcake), but they staunchly defend their name choice. This pastry has a couple different names in Germany, but most agree on "Berliner", esp. in the West, in the south it's more common to call it a "Krapfen" or "Kreppel", but nobody would bat an eye if you called it a "Berliner", just don't call it a "Pfannkuchen" outside of Berlin.

Do an episode about David Mech, the researcher that coined the terms 'alpha', 'beta' and 'gamma' when studying Wolf behavior. What he didn't realize was that natural wolf-packs are extended families, while his Wolfs were all orphans from un-related packs. The 'orphans' behaved with aggression and violence, establishing pecking-orders...they were 'strangers' to each other. He's been trying for decades to get people to stop using the term 'alpha male'; they never existed, it was bad science.

When I took English History in high school I was told, flat out, that King John was surrounded by angry barons who forced him to sign the Magna Carta under threat of death. I never heard the apocryphal stories, and didn't know they existed.

“It looks like you’re going to have to deal with another night of medieval handstuff….” 🤣😂🤣 - Bravo sir !!! 👏

The amazing thing about Simon Whistler's enunciation is that he sounds exactly the same at 2X speed.

The real reason Columbus had a hard time getting somebody to pay for his voyage was that the ancient Greeks had figured out that the would was round and even had a fairly close idea of its circumference. The people with the money in Columbus' day knew those figures, and they also knew how far it was to Japan going the other direction over land. Columbus got his math wrong and thought he'd be sailing 4400km; the courts of Europe he asked for funding had better mathematicians and knew it was closer to 20000km. They didn't think he'd fall off the edge, they thought he'd starve a quarter of the way into the trip. Luckily (for Columbus and the Spanish Crown, not so much for the people he "discovered"), there were favorable winds and a continent they didn't know about.

Chastity belt…..I’m thinking Robinhood Men in Tights lol

On "et tu brute", I remember how they handled that in the superb HBO/BBC adaptation. The long pregnant pause in dialogue, Caesar trying to speak, with everyone watching and thinking "say it, SAY IT!", before he goes with nothing more than an accusatory glare.